In the past year, gross FDI into India surged by 14 percent, reaching $81 billion
The spread between Indian and US 10-year bonds recently fell to its lowest in over two decades, after the yield on US treasuries spiked over fiscal concerns.
Foreigners net bought $515 million of stocks in the week ended March 21, marking the first weekly inflow this year. They’ve plowed $3 billion into local bonds so far in March, the most since 2017.
MIT, the world’s second best university, has taken a contrarian view of Indian markets when compared to other foreign funds — buy emerging stocks and hold them long, data complied by Moneycontrol shows
Foreign investors injected Rs 7,320 crore into Indian equities in August, significantly lower than previous months, due to high valuations and the unwinding of the Yen carry trade after Japan's rate hike.
In 2022-23, primary corporate bond issuances rose in the domestic market, while overseas bond issuances moderated.
On a quarter-on-quarter basis, the value of FPI in Indian equities fell by 7 per cent from USD 584 billion recorded in the three months ended December 2022.
This was largely on low return given by the Indian equities and exodus of foreign money from the domestic stock market.
Foreign Portfolio Investors (FPIs) have been adopting a cautious stance toward Indian equity markets for the past few weeks.
The investment bank MD expects core inflation to remain above 6 percent primarily due to supply-side constraints and rising input costs
So long as the US Fed continues with its rate hike trajectory, money market dealers expect FPI flows to remain negative.
FPIs turned net buyers in July after nine straight months of massive net outflows, which started in October last year.
There is a clear trend reversal in FPI (Foreign Portfolio Investment) flows from July onwards since when overseas investors turned buyers in India after nine straight months of massive net outflows, which started in October last year.
Experts are of the view that amid a slowdown in growth, the central bank could well cut rates by 25-50 bps in December meeting to support growth in Asia’s third-largest economy.
The Asset Managers Roundtable of India has said that SEBI’s measures could lead to an outflow of $75 billion in FPI. That’s a hefty chunk of the $425 billion of assets under custody
Markets regulator Sebi today said foreign portfolio investment through participatory notes has plunged to just 8 percent after it introduced greater disclosure norms.
The outflow of USD 11 billion of foreign portfolio investment in the October-December quarter is being analysed to assess the extent of impact of demonetisation on the outflows.
Despite its significance, size and contribution towards India‘s GDP, Indian real estate remains one of the most unorganised sectors, due to its local nature and the presence of a large number of players, according R
RBI said the existing requirement of investments being made in G-sec, including state development loans with a minimum residual maturity of three years will continue.
"We cut our FPI inflows forecast for FY16 to USD 10 billion (including USD 5 billion FPI G-sec limit hike) from USD 20 billion earlier," global financial services major BofA-ML said in a research note.
Foreign portfolio investment (FPI) inflows into India could trip below USD 15 billion this fiscal amid continued global uncertainty, a Bank of America Merrill Lynch (BofA-ML) report says.
While existing ODI positions will be allowed to continue till expiry if they are not in compliance with the relevant provisions of Foreign Portfolio Investment (FPI) Regulations, any additional issuance, renewal or rollover of such non-compliant positions would not be permitted, Sebi said.
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